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[elwenyere]

#poetry #natalie shapero #goddamn

[firstfullmoon]

Natalie Shapero, “Long Week Talking”

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[beingharsh]

"Slip", Natalie Shapero

#i really enjoy her collection popular longing! #natalie shapero #poetry #poem #words #my posts

[llovelymoonn]

hi, could i request a web on turning older. I was talking to my friend yesterday, and turning 30 seems so terrifying, at the same time it also seems normal just like another. But I'm not able to turn my back to all the responsibilities and what people expect of me, to all that i have set myself to achieve before this "30 milestone"

Absolutely love your blog btw. So glad i found you in this platform :)

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[cutiebabie]

#natalie shapero #i cant stop thinking about this wow #words #uploads

[thus-always-to-tyrants]

First of December by Natalie Shapero

#words #quotes #quoteblr #poetry #poetryblr #writeblr #natalie shapero #oc #absolute fave #🕊️

[cyberdank]

First of December by Natalie Shapero

#poetry #natalie shapero #first of december

[ashtrayfloors]

HOME SCALE This decomposing urn, the ad assures, will turn you, when you die, into a tree. 

Might as well just turn into a tree while you’re living. 

And what are they  doing, the hospital, asking again  about any self-

harm and then packing the baby into your arms, 

saying avoid the dismal  and also remember it’s normal  for the baby to lose weight

in the first days, then regain it, you can check by stepping 

onto a home scale holding  the baby, then you just subtract your body from the scene.

—Natalie Shapero (Typo 26)

#poetry #natalie shapero #pregnancy #motherhood #trauma #grief

[havingapoemwithyou]

not horses by Natalie Shapero

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[poem-today]

A poem by Natalie Shapero

Long Week Talking

I am ashamed to keep thinking of death  as a chute that connects to the garbage. I know  I should picture it more like the pneumatic tubes 

at banks of the past: you put in your name  and your paper and up you go. I know a bank 

should be the operative metaphor  for every facet of existence, every time. I’m sorry 

I haven’t more regularly made reference  to a bank. When I fail to liken something to a bank,  that’s how I can tell I’m tired. That’s not me, 

I assure everybody. That’s the long week talking. Time  for bed. Time for the window, the hectoring sky, 

the streetlight bright as the bright saved people  see before they die, but I don’t die.

Natalie Shapero

Listen to Natalie Shapero read and discuss her poem.

Natalie Shapero says of her poem: There was a sense in which I didn’t want to write another poem about death, but there was also a sense in which I did want to do this, and so I settled on a first line that, taken on its own, serves as a kind of apology, or at least an introductory, undermining gesture. Read together with the lines that follow, though, it just goes ahead and does the thing it says it’s ashamed of doing. I guess I like to have it both ways.

Copyright © 2023 by Natalie Shapero. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on September 4, 2023, by the Academy of American Poets. 

#natalie shapero #american poetry #death #long week talking #pneumatic tubes #sonnet

[elwenyere]

-- Natalie Shapero

#poetry #natalie shapero #oof those last lines #baby you got a queue going

[firstfullmoon]

How I have killed to live and live / like this, unwell, unwelcome and unmoored and still / I have killed for it and would again.

Natalie Shapero, from “Flags and Axes”

#w #poetry #natalie shapero #to love life even when you have no stomach for it

[agirlnamedbone]

Natalie Shapero (pub. in American Poetry Review)

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[necromeater]

#natalie shapero #poetry #was this the face #you who measure your lovers in millihelens

[blnkverse]

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[loosejournal]

Isolette by Natalie Shapero

So they can put a man on the moon, but they won’t make a way for a living adult to go back and elect to have never existed. To save from being raped the person who had the person who had the person who had the person who had me, would I give up my life? Yeah, I would. I mean who                                                          needs it:  the hospital by the highway, the isolette, flat sheet — I would give it all up ever and backward to save you, even though, let’s face it, what did you do for me? For my wooly moment, which to you is the future? Did you force a new world in which  I would be protected? That’s a no. But I’m not  petty. I am in fact an enemy of the fixation with things being square, the check split down to the penny.  It’s my pleasure. It’s                                    my pleasure. It’s my treat. 

#poetry #poem #natalie shapero